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Melvin Jules Bukiet

Melvin Jules Bukiet is a novelist and professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

By the Content of Its Characters

By the Content of Its Characters

On rereading “War and Peace” in the age of radical sensitivity

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Friday, February 03, 2017
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One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet

A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Thursday, March 01, 2007
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Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Saturday, September 01, 2007
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Custom and Law

After the death of his father, a not-notably observant Jew turns to the mourning rituals of his faith

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Thursday, September 01, 2005
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What Is a Dog?

by Chloe Shaw

We admit that unofficial, national fill-in-the-blank days can sometimes feel contrived. (National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day, anyone?) But National Hug Your Dog Day (April 10) is too good not to celebrate, especially if it means we can revisit one of our favorite essays: Chloe Shaw’s “What Is a Dog?” from our Spring 2018 issue. After losing a beloved hound named Booker—described as a “wolf meets horse meets dinosaur meets tongue”—Shaw confronts the joys and inevitable sorrows of loving a pet. “A dog is a second chance. A dog is death and life. A dog is plush red carpet and fresh warm pee.” A dog is worth celebrating, and not only on April 10.